Keep Your Pants On, Grey's Fans
No, those weren't grapefruits on Thursday night's Grey's Anatomy. And, no, those weren't what you thought they were, either.
What blogger buzz identified as a shot of swollen testicles, ABC identified as a shot of a guest star.
"If you look at it," a network rep said Friday, "it's Mitch Pileggi."
How the noted character actor came to be confused for a brief, backlit shot of a scrotum is a matter of story line and screen grabs.
In the episode, "Desire," Pileggi appears as Seattle Grace's chairman of the board, a man with a big problem: a pair of too-big-for-his-britches testicles.
In order to best explain the condition, Pileggi's character drops trou.
"Fix this," the hospital exec orders.
The reactions of Seattle Grace's doctors are captured in a reverse-angle, between-the-legs shot in which something—or is it somethings?—pop into the top of the frame.
"Grey's Anatomy Went 'Nuts' Last Night," declared a headline on the pop-culture blog Towerload.
"Grey's Anatomy Sneaks a Swollen Scrotum Past Network Censors," offered Defamer in picking up the Towerload item.
And sure enough, the sites' screen grabs do make it look as though man gear dropped into range.
But a careful, JFK-style review of the video (Back, and to the left... Back, and to the right...) reveals that nothing more adult than Pileggi's grown-up skull dropped into range. As Pileggi's character removes his pants, he leans over, and his head briefly comes into view in the between-the-legs shot.
Scrotumgate, we hardly knew ye.
Coincidentally, or maybe not, considering Thursday was the first night of May sweeps, Grey's time slot rival, CSI, also touched a pair of giant, swollen testicles. The testicles did not actually appear on screen, and were not believed to have been mistaken for Pileggi.
In the end, CSI got more play out of its giant testicles than Grey's got out of its so-called "penisfish," the Amazonian parasite that was found to plague Pileggi's character. The CBS crime drama scored a now-rare win in the 9 p.m. hour, edging its rival 20.2 million viewers to 20.1 million.
Next time, maybe Grey's should consider going for the full grapefruit.
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